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ArishMell · 70-79, M
None at all.
My 'phone is not linked to the Internet but even if it was, the less clutter and fewer gimmicks on it, the better.
I have sometimes seen friends' smart-phones' home-screens, and watched the owners flick through page after page of symbols for one programme or link after another... dozens of them.
By comparison, my computer has apart from Microsoft WIN-11 and some of its normal accessories, plus Firefox, BT e-mail and Norton protection:
MS Office for Windows XP (so 'Word', 'Excel', 'PowerPoint', possibly 'Access' too),
The HP Printer driver,
Only 2 general social-media accounts - but NOT Facebook or Twitter - plus a couple specific to my interests.
and some third-party programmes:
two of CAD, one measurements-units converter / calculator and one special geological survey tool.
None of these, except the Norton, are on subscription.
The PC came already loaded with WIN_10 which MS later un-obligingly changed to W11.
I bought 'Office for XP' and the two CAD programmes as single, up-front purchases.
The converter and survey tools were free from elsewhere.
There are no games, no wi-fi, no Bluetooth (is that a dental complaint indigenous to Artic regions?), no camera, no microphone, no entertainments accounts (films, music, TV).
My 'phone is not linked to the Internet but even if it was, the less clutter and fewer gimmicks on it, the better.
I have sometimes seen friends' smart-phones' home-screens, and watched the owners flick through page after page of symbols for one programme or link after another... dozens of them.
By comparison, my computer has apart from Microsoft WIN-11 and some of its normal accessories, plus Firefox, BT e-mail and Norton protection:
MS Office for Windows XP (so 'Word', 'Excel', 'PowerPoint', possibly 'Access' too),
The HP Printer driver,
Only 2 general social-media accounts - but NOT Facebook or Twitter - plus a couple specific to my interests.
and some third-party programmes:
two of CAD, one measurements-units converter / calculator and one special geological survey tool.
None of these, except the Norton, are on subscription.
The PC came already loaded with WIN_10 which MS later un-obligingly changed to W11.
I bought 'Office for XP' and the two CAD programmes as single, up-front purchases.
The converter and survey tools were free from elsewhere.
There are no games, no wi-fi, no Bluetooth (is that a dental complaint indigenous to Artic regions?), no camera, no microphone, no entertainments accounts (films, music, TV).